Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm. Biography. A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years.
The oxymoron has also been called the show-off figure, one that gives voice to life's inherent conflicts and incongruities. The true beauty of oxymorons, says Richard Watson Todd, is that, unless we sit back and really think, we happily accept them as normal English..